I ll Never Sell on Ebay Again
Why I volition never sell a product again on eBay, and why you shouldn't neither.
I decided to sell my camera. I tried on CraigsList but nobody was interested. I decided to sell it on eBay. Until Yesterday, I just used eBay as a heir-apparent, not a seller.
So hither we go, it'southward painful (considering the UI/UX of the eBay website is awful, welcome back to 1994!) but I manage to listing my item. The beginning price is $two,690 and the "Buy It Now" toll is set to $3,499. Then I go to bed.
7 hours of good slumber later on, I bank check my email to discover that my camera has been sold, at $3,499 😍. Awesome! Somebody hit the "Purchase Information technology Now" push during the night. It'due south a good Friday forenoon start.
First clue that something is wrong: the buyer sends me an email (using the internal eBay messaging arrangement) request me pictures of the item from all angles + my Paypal email accost.
Why the heck is he request me to send pictures from dissimilar angles to his personal email accost when these pictures are already on eBay?
Anyways, I send him the pictures and my Paypal e-mail address, and I start my due diligence on the guy to discover that he created his business relationship in September 2010, he has 63 stars (simply no feedback ratings 🤔). He is from Georgia and his proper noun is Jim Rubio.
And then, I receive this on my phone…
Fortunately, I'm interrupted, and I resume on my laptop
Yes, you read right, the proper noun is service@paypal.com merely the e-mail address is shipment-invoice@post.com (thing you don't see if you read the message from your smartphone), there is the eBay logo, and they inquire me to send the production. They supposedly received the payment and they've placed a temporary agree on information technology, until they can verify that the product has shipped.
The corporeality is wrong ($3,699 instead of $3,499), the guy'southward name is now Temmy Paul (instead of Jim Rubio) and the address is in Nevada (instead of Georgia). Actually, the address is an electronics store/warehouse:
To sum up, it's a big big scam, just information technology'southward bigger than it seems. There are multiple technics used here, from phishing, to identity theft and recel. Let me explain.
Jim Rubio exists, and seems to exist a pretty respectable person. He is based in Atlanta, Georgia, owns a music store where he sells bass guitars. His name and his address stand for to the i of the eBay heir-apparent. Even the pseudo seems correct: "atlantabassgallery" when his retail store is named "Atlanta Bass Gallery".
And then why did he ask me to send the product to a different person? Why did he ask me to enter the tracking number in eBay before I go the payment? (By the way yes, in eBay, you can enter the tracking number anytime! Come across below:)
Afterward few hours of thinking, now the machanism is clear, and information technology'southward really frightening because it's so easy to put together, and information technology's vitually impossible to grab the mastermind backside it (permit's call him "the bad guy").
- The bad guy uses a "fake real identity" to open an eBay business relationship. Everything is correct just the electronic mail. He uses one that only he has admission to.
- He seeks the eBay listing for loftier-stop electronics products.
- He hits the "Buy It Now" button to immediately stop the bidding war and create a sense of urgency and excitement in the seller.
- He contacts the seller, ask him to send him his Paypal email address via e-mail (by-passing the eBay messaging system)
- He sends a imitation email ("phishing"), pretending being Paypal/eBay with information that only Paypal/eBay are supposed to have: the name of the heir-apparent, the email of the seller, etc. (He received them via eBay considering HE IS the buyer, and via the seller because he but asked, and the seller sent them because it makes sense, to become paid).
And this is how it is supposed to work from at that place:
vi. The seller sends the product (in Limited Overnight Shipment, similar specified in the false email message), goes to eBay to enter the tracking number, and waits for the money to arrive on his Paypal business relationship.
vii. The bad guy receives the product, never sends the coin.
8. 2 or 3 days after, the seller informs eBay that he has sent the production simply never received the money. eBay asks the buyer to ship the money to the seller just the heir-apparent — the bad guy — just answers that he never received the product. And that'south true, because recollect, the tracking number proves that the product has been sent and deliver… not to the address of the buyer!
The buyer — the bad guy — becomes the victim here… eBay has no reason to blame him.
9. The seller cries 😭. He can do absolutely nothing.
ten. The bad guy tin now sell 🤑 the production he got for costless, and can repeat the scam forever.
Don't sell on eBay, you'll never win! Q.E.D.
PS: I'm so shocked past the UI/UX of eBay. How can people trust this system? I just noticed that fifty-fifty the linguistic communication is sometimes mixed. "Verkaufen"! What does it mean? Is it high german?
[Edit Nov 8]: merely received two emails from eBay proverb that the purshase was made without owner's permission!
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